Question

The height of the Eiffel Tower is 38 feet more than 3 times the height of Big Ben. What is the height of the Eiffel Tower if Big Ben is 316 feet?

Answer 1

The question tells us that the Eiffel tower will still be taller than Big Ben, even if Big Ben was multiplied 3 times. So lets work that out first.

Big Ben's height = 316 ft.

316 x 3 = 948 ft.

However the Eiffel tower is 38 ft taller than this.

So we add 38ft to 948 to find the Eiffel Tower's height.

948 + 38 = 986ft

Eiffel Tower = 986ft tall.